Our weekly (mostly) look at media spin tactics: let’s dissect the PR and propaganda that aims to blow one’s own horn, bury one’s errors, resurrect the shambling zombie corpses of well-flogged deceased equines, and ooh look! A Big Distracting Thing!
The first question is always cui bono? The second question is what’s really going on?
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The Aust. 28 November 2011
If by “falters” you mean … no meaningful change, and if by “poised” you mean balanced on one foot for the next 2 years…
Did last week not happen in John Ferguson Land?
and…. in a slip Freud might claim…
Labor is headed for a “debacle inferno”! Just ask Paul Kelly. He actually had it published in the national broadsheet on Sat 26th September. The full sentence, in all its glory is, “Labor is lighting spectacular fires on the path to its debacle inferno.”
W. T. F. ??
Clearly, Labor is in such a parlous position that it has afflicted the Sage And Observer Of Public Life with a small stroke or bout of aphasia, rendering him insensible.
I think they are feeling under pressure Mercurius since your fantastic post and need to justify their existence.
An exchange from Poll Bludger this morning …
george
Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 8:56 am
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2011/11/28/essential-research-54-46-to-coalition-5/comment-page-14/#comment-1099496
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Scarpat
Posted Tuesday, November 29, 2011 at 8:59 am
http://blogs.crikey.com.au/pollbludger/2011/11/28/essential-research-54-46-to-coalition-5/comment-page-14/#comment-1099497
ABC tv news on Tuesday night decided it was hugely important to carry the story of US Republican candidate Herman Kane having an alleged sexual affair with a married woman. She conceded on camera that it was consensual: he acknowledged he knows the woman.
Hullo ABC this was a consensual affair. You have it on tape. No news, no story.
Love the way AA spin tries to make bankruptcy sound like a good thing. http://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/American-Airlines-Files-For-skynews-4263621.html?x=0
Not quite spin, but media relevant anyway, just appeared on the ABC website:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-11-30/british-journo-describes-tabloid-culture-of-fear/3702966
Clearly, they just dont get it…
A “correction” we’d all like to see…
Pablo said:
As long as Cain denies the sexual contact and asserts “traditional family values”, it’s a story.
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dear Pablo
re abc coverage of the cane “consensual” affair – appropriate or not.
so, in your view, because it was a “consensual” affair (and not, say, sexual harassment) there’s no story?
au conintreau. what is, in fact, relevant & the real story, is not that the affair was “consensual” (is that his wife’s “consent” you’re referring to?). the relevant issue is that cane finked on his wife. kane lied to his wife, for i don’t know how many years, while having a “consensual” affair. that’s the news. right there. there’s your story.
and americans are right to take interest in the married man kane’s secretive “consensual” affair, because this man, who finked on his wife for years, who perpetuated a lie, for years, to the person who trusted him most, now wants americans to (ultimately) elect him president.
and the abc was quite right to cover the story as it did. and your use of “alleged sexual affair” is tendentious & inappropriate; kane confessed he had the affair. or are you alleging it wasn’t a “sexual” affair?
yours sincerely
alfred vension
Talking of balanced coverage in News Limited Herald Sun no thing in News Limited :Today’s Age: Lib policy costings exposed by ruling
Peter Martin
December 1, 2011
“THE federal Coalition’s economic credibility has been dealt a blow after a tribunal found that two accountants who costed its 2010 election policies had breached professional standards.
The ruling is an embarrassment to shadow treasurer Joe Hockey, who wrongly insisted during the campaign that the accountants’ policy costings had been audited.
Geoffrey Phillip Kid and Cyrus Patell, of the Perth office of accountants WHK Horwath, produced a one-page report for the Coalition on its policies two days before the election.
Mr Hockey said at the time that the pair had certified “in law that our numbers are accurate”.”
Read more: http://www.theage.com.au/national/lib-policy-costings-exposed-by-ruling-20111130-1o773.html#ixzz1fHH8rUGi
This from Peter Martin Sept 2010 “We are asked to take both Horwath and the Coalition on trust. Then known as Hendry, Rae and Court, Horwath had as its founding partner in 1938 Charles Court, later to become Sir Charles Court, the long-serving Liberal premier of Western Australia and father of Richard Court, the Liberal premier from 1993 to 2001… Horwath principal Geoff Kidd told The Age last night Sir Charles kept an office in the firm after he retired from politics and maintained an active interest in its work.”Surely Hockey and Robb both mislead the people and the Parliament in Sept 2010 will it be followed up,surely it should?
The Coalition are led by a man with a face for radio and a voice for silent movies who’s charisma transplant has rejected him. The vast majority of people in Australia – who get their news from the tabloids and the commercial TV networks – are never told that.
Hard to beat this entry from the Murdochracy:
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